Bakers and Basques
Subtitle: a social history of bread in Mexico
By: Robert Weis
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780826351463; 9780826351470
Subjects: Bakeries; Mexico; Bakers; Bread industry; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Bread; Political activity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Zelo y desvelo" : the bread monopoly and late colonial market reforms; title: "A system that offends the hands of brothers" : small bakers and the free market in independent Mexico; title: "An uncle in America" : chain migration and the Spanish monopoly; title: "Dough kneaded with blood"; title: "We have no bread" : hunger, opportunity, and war; title: The bakers' revolution; title: Unionists, tlalchicholes, and canasteros.